Tag Archive "marcel-duchamp"

Smoke and Mirrors: Olafur Eliasson at MoMA and P.S. 1

Olafur Eliasson 360̊ room for all colours (2002) stainless steel, projection foil, fluorescent lights, wood and copntrol unit, private collection courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, all photographs courtesy MoMA, © Olafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson’s art is unapologetically built of smoke and mirrors. If you love the part of The Wizard of Oz where the film shifts from black and white to color you’ll delight in the similar charge Eliasson evokes from manipulating elements as simple as light, water and air. The material of one piece is labled mono-frequency lights, another label reads moss, wood and wire. If you were ... More » »

Surreal Things and Polish Modernism; Exhibitions in Rotterdam and Dublin

The Surrealists staged some of the most outrageous and imaginative art exhibitions of the Twentieth Century: in 1938 Marcel Duchamp hung the ceiling of the International Surrealist Exposition with coal sacks and one gallery, strewn with leaves and moss, contained a pond; for the opening the guests were handed flashlights to illuminate the artworks hung in darkened rooms. Frederick Kiesler’s 1942 designs for Art of This Century (Peggy Guggenheim’s New York gallery) included work displayed on a conveyor belt and a gallery where every two minutes the lights would go on and off on opposing walls. For the First Papers ... More » »

nuts and berries: objects and not

Little Berlin 1801 N. Howard St., Philadelphia.Friday, December 14th- ? A wall of found and manipulated objects, priced from low to “priceless” nuts and berries: objects and not bills itself as a “visual agreement between daniel petraitis and martha savery” and each would-be capital letter was printed lower case as it is reproduced here. I can only assume the use of lower case implies that the artists (or the space) are extremely modest about their craft and its place in society. I think an adept parallel would be when a band chooses to play on the floor, becoming a part ... More » »

Hot time: A weekend in NYC

Post by Andrea Kirsh Verner Panton, 1970/2000, Phantasy Landscape Visiona II, (View 2), Wood, foam rubber and woolen fabric , 314 15/16 x 236 1/4 x 94 1/2in. (800 x 600 x 240cm), Vitra Design Museum, © Panton Design, Basel I love New York City on a summer weekend when everyone who can has left for the beach or the country; it’s calmer than at other times. I headed for the Whitney where I approached “Summer of Love; Celebrating Art of the Psychedelic Era” with curiosity but also trepidation; after all, seeing one’s adolescence recast as history is sobering. The ... More » »